S.Caucasus Inscriptions,
Azerbaijan and Iran

Türkic Script

The nomadic Türkic tribes that inhabited Azerbaijan between the 4th and 8th
centuries AD used a Türkic script, which is also indigenous to some of the
Germanic peoples of Northern Europe, Britain, Scandinavia and Iceland. Examples
of this type of writing can be found carved on the Garga Dashi rocks near the
Nuvadi settlement in the Megri district now in Armenia. The inscriptions in
this script have also been found in the North Caucasus mountains and Altai.
This alphabet has been carefully studied and documented.

Türkic alphabet used by the nomadic Turkic tribes that inhabited Azerbaijan
between the 4th and 8th centuries AD.

1. Monument Askheme

Details of find:

In 1993 in the
Djabrail district
of Azerbaijan was found the a
stone with Ancient Türkic inscriptions. The war (i.e. Azerbaijano-Armenian war
for Karabakh - Translator's note) prevented
investigation of the monument. The inscription has not
been read (it was drawn). The
monument of the Ancient Turkic culture will be investigated by the Armenian
scientists.

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Fragment of monument Askheme

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2. Stone spindle from Djalilabad
district of Azerbayjan

Details of find:

1995 the student of the philological faculty of the Lenkoran State
University, Shakir Asadullabeyli, found in the Djalilabad district
a household artifact which rejected any doubts about residing of the
Ancient Türks in the Azerbaijan. This monument is a
bottom part of a spindle made from clay and sand. The artifact has a roundish
form. In the middle of the spindle is an hollow for a shaft. On the top and
bottom part are Ancient Türkic inscriptions almost
undistinguishable from the Orkhon-Enisean inscriptions.

Dating: Not available

Stone spindle from Djalilabad
district of Azerbaijan

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3. Monument Rock
Inscriptions from Montain Gargadashy of
Azerbaijan

Details of find:

In the 1985 a rural teacher and philologist Gamza Weli found on the
Gargadashy mountain near the village Nuvedi of the Zangezur district
in the present Armenia (that area, like the Geychi district, were taken from
the Azerbaijan and presented to the present Armenian republic, the former
Irevan province of the Russian empire) a number of stones with unknown
inscriptions. In the opinion of some scientists and Türkologists, these
monuments belonged to the Ancient Turkic tribes. It is impossible not to agree
with it. At the first look at these inscriptions is possible to see a
similarity with the K¸ktüric alphabet, but there are also divergences. Mainly
the reason is that the letters are connected by that letters found on the
monuments in the Gargadashy mountain are connected, whereas in the K¸ktüric
alphabet they are never linked. This alphabet has some outward similarity with
the Uigur alphabet. Gamza Weli asserted that the alphabet, written in these
monuments, is older than K¸ktüric alphabet...